Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press conference last week, Police Chief Willie Williams answered a stream of Fuhrman-related questions in angry bursts. He reiterated his objections to the idea that his officers are framing Simpson, maintaining that "it is inconceivable that behind this one murder all of a sudden you're going to get 10, 20, 30 or 40 people ... from six or seven different department organizations, to plot against Mr. Simpson." As for Fuhrman's descriptions of police misconduct, Williams snapped: "We have zero tolerance for racism, sexism and any type of anti-Semitism. That is nonnegotiable...
There was high drama again at the endless-and, in recent weeks, tedious-O.J. Simpson murder trial. The possibility of a mistrial was raised when a visibly emotional Judge Lance Ito agreed with the prosecution that he might be unable to act impartially if 11 hours of taped interviews with prosecution witness Detective Mark Fuhrman were introduced as evidence. The interviews allegedly contain derogatory comments about Ito's wife Captain Margaret York, who is the L.A.P.D.'s highest-ranking female officer. (More to the evidentiary point, Simpson defense lawyers contend that the tapes contain passages in which Fuhrman discusses...
Four months after the nation's deadliest terrorist attack, a federal grand jury indicted the two prime suspects in the Oklahoma City case, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, on bombing and murder charges that could bring the death penalty to both. The indictment identified McVeigh as the driver who detonated the truck bomb. As part of a deal with prosecutors, Michael Fortier, a close Army buddy of McVeigh's, pleaded guilty to lesser charges, including lying and failing to notify authorities about the crime. He is expected to become the government's star witness...
...Andrei Codrescu's novel The Blood Countess (Simon & Schuster; 347 pages; $23) offers an equally unattractive alternative: Elizabeth Bathory, a 16th century Hungarian tyrant alleged to have killed 650 girls in the belief that bathing in their blood would preserve her youth and beauty. Though never tried for mass murder, Bathory is said to have been confined to a room of her castle, where after five years she died...
...business of the courts to determine guilt and hand out punishment, but it's up to the rest of us to try to figure out what each sensational murder trial has to say about our culture and times--that is, about the rest of us. O.J. forced us to ponder the issue of domestic violence, with side trips into Hollywood decadence and the arrogance of male athletes. In the Susan Smith case, though, no one has come up with any grand themes other than mental illness and "evil"--both of which are ways of saying, "This is so unthinkable that...